Nic Koziolek

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Elucidations · Episode 96: Nic Koziolek discusses the role of belief in reasoning · 8 May 2017 podcast

Eggs are notoriously fragile, but if you sort of pack it up in the right sort of way

then it's going to be prevented from breaking even when it

is exerted uh subjected to certain forces.

Or you can think about if you have a you know, a drinking glass that's fragile, you might put something inside it to exert outward force from the inside of the glass so that you can strike the glass from the outside and it's not going to break.

So you can sort of prevent the actualization of the disposition here.

And the thought is, it's not like the glass stops being fragile in and of itself.

It's just that you've sort of constructed things in such a way that its fragility can't lead it to break.

Yeah, that's pretty much right.

Yeah, it's basically like that.

The difference is that it's hard to know what to say about exactly what is preventing the actualization of the belief.

And so in a lot of these cases, I mostly just think that it's an obvious fact about us as human beings that we do sometimes just forget things.

And so, in some sense, I think what's interfering is something like merely the fact that we are cognitive.

Yeah.

So we're not capable of keeping in mind all the time everything that we know.

Our memories are sort of very fallible and don't always work that well.

And so the idea is that whenever you sort of fail to put two disparate pieces of information together and so come to know something that you are in a position to know.

That's going to be just because somehow the beliefs that you're relying on that sort of allow you to draw that conclusion, those beliefs are failing to actualize.

And maybe the ultimate explanation of this is going to be something about chemical processes in the brain.

There's a lot of, you know, scientific work to be done on this, but at this sort of in basic level of everyday human interaction, the only thing to say about this really is just that sometimes we forget things and then later we remember them.

And sometimes we can identify something specific that prompted our remembering.

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